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CHAPTER IV. | ||
MEDITATION AND NIRVANA. | ||
Introductory Discourse | 280 | |
§ 57. | The Way of Purity | 285 |
58. | Concentration | 288 |
59. | The Thirty-one Grades of Being | 289 |
60. | The Forty Subjects of Meditation | 291 |
61. | The Earth-kasina | 293 |
62. | Beauty is but Skin-deep | 297 |
63. | The Conversion of Animals | 301 |
64. | Love for Animals | 302 |
65. | The Six High Powers | 303 |
66. | Spiritual Law in the Natural World | 306 |
67. | Going Further and Faring Worse | 308 |
68. | Sāriputta and the Two Demons | 313 |
69. | World-cycles | 315 |
70. | Wisdom | 330 |
71. | The Summum Bonum | 331 |
72. | Māra as Plowman | 349 |
73. | The Fire-sermon | 351 |
74. | The Four Intent Contemplations | 353 |
75. | The Attainment of the Paths | 376 |
76. | Nirvana to be attained at Death | 380 |
77. | The Attainment of Nirvana by Godhika | 380 |
78. | The Trance of Cessation | 383 |
79. | The Attainment of Nirvana | 389 |
CHAPTER V. | ||
THE ORDER. | ||
Introductory Discourse | 392 | |
§ 80. | Conduct | 393 |
81. | The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies | 393 |
82. | The Serpent who wanted to be a Priest | 401 |
83. | The Buddhist Confession of Priests | 402 |
84. | The Order receive leave to dwell in Houses | 411 |
85. | Residence during the Rainy Season | 414 |
86. | The Mendicant Ideal | 417 |
87. | The Value of Training in Religion | 420 |
88. | The colorless Life | 421 |
89. | Can the Saint suffer? | 429 |
90. | The Body is an open Sore | 423 |